Jamia Millia Islamia's teachers' body has passed resolutions opposing the university's new leave rules and show cause notices issued to some Hindi department faculty members for refusing to translate its annual report, among other things.
The Jamia Teachers' Association (JTA) passed the resolutions at a meeting of its general body on August 3, putting forth a series of demands, including setting up an inquiry committee to examine the cases of show cause notices.
A university official, however, said on Tuesday that the JTA does not have any legal right to call a general body meeting (GBM) as its tenure ended in May this year.
At its general body meeting, the JTA called for the revocation of the new leave rules. "The recently implemented leave rules are regressive and affect teachers' participation in various teaching, research, extension activities," the minutes of the read.